Un Argentin à Oyonnax

That end was a lovely throw back to how rugby was 5 10 years ago, before there was all this control being put in place by coach’s. JJ said his team tried not to place any pressure on the team this week with specific messages, and you have to assume that is why there there was no structure at the beginning, trying to run every play to the opponents goal line, but I also credit it for the team just finding their own grind and taking to the Canes. Perhaps the last 20 phases they did sort of start loosening that momentum, stop pressuring the line, and it was a bit of a waving the white flag of a drop kick, but it was probably just the lack of oxygen. Would have loved a few more phases in the middle their before the drop goal.

With attacking lineouts taken for pens, you’d also need to factor in other elements such as ‘how much time was spent in the oppo 22?’, ‘Did that time result in yellow cards or warnings for the D?’

If you rewatch the game at Twickenham v the ABs, those are very important. Thre pressure built from attacking lineouts milked a series of pens and yellow cards out of the ABs even when they were defending successfully.